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Model specific boards => Golf mk6 => Topic started by: KennyGTI on 18 August 2011, 22:26
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Well here is another GTI victim of a speeding ticket! :cry: got caught doing 94 in a 70! My first speeding ticket ever! Someone driving up my arse and I put the foot down with out realising the bad guys were infront in an unmarked car! Well no one to blame but myself :lipsrsealed: 60quid and 3 points!
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Sorry to hear this Kenny. Don't do anymore tuning to make the car into a veritable rocket.
Hope your Insurance Premium does not rocket by too much.
Drive safely and more sedately. :smiley:
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Well here is another GTI victim of a speeding ticket! :cry: got caught doing 94 in a 70! My first speeding ticket ever! Someone driving up my arse and I put the foot down with out realising the bad guys were infront in an unmarked car! Well no one to blame but myself :lipsrsealed: 60quid and 3 points!
Know how you feel Kenny, I got 3 points and have to go on a Speed Awareness Course, serves me right for getting done twice in 2 weeks :embarassed:
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Wish we got offered the speed awarness course up here!
Twice and one week! Ouch, dont feel so bad now.
Now I am going to take up cruising about the towns at slow speeds! :cool:
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Wish we got offered the speed awarness course up here!
Twice and one week! Ouch, dont feel so bad now.
Now I am going to take up cruising about the towns at slow speeds! :cool:
You mean kerb crawling?.......careful you may get a fine for this aswell :evil:
Seriously unlucky mate regarding the speeding ticket. It happens to the best of us and it must be even more annoying seeing as you've never had a ticket before. It's not easy to stick to anywhere near 70 mph in any car these days on a motorway. I always drive down the fast lane as I always think its the safest if you keep you distance. Which bugs the hell out of me when you've got others driving up your ar'@se.
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Congratulations Kenny - 2 mph faster and you'd probably have wound up in court with a larger fine and double the points.
Welcome to the club :grin:
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I know, I should start looking for a TDI!
Murder sticking to 70mph, pointless having a fast car! :angry:
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Sorry to read this Kenny.
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I know, I should start looking for a TDI!
Murder sticking to 70mph, pointless having a fast car! :angry:
..............speed limit needs to be raised. :evil: Modern cars have come on a long way since the limits were placed back in the 60's.
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I know, I should start looking for a TDI!
Murder sticking to 70mph, pointless having a fast car! :angry:
..............speed limit needs to be raised. :evil: Modern cars have come on a long way since the limits were placed back in the 60's.
It will never happen in this country , to many do gooder's :grin:
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.............speed limit needs to be raised. :evil: Modern cars have come on a long way since the limits were placed back in the 60's.
But modern drivers have got worse :grin:
I do agree though that the motorway limit should be raised to 80.
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It's less about the cars, more about peoples concentration and awareness whilst driving. A sole driver paying full attention driving smoothly and allowing adequate space at 90 mph is far less of a risk than somebody half asleep at 58mph in the slow lane or a parent very heavily distracted by kids in the back.
I once had to break from speed in the outside lane with a good controlled firm and progressive breaking maneuver for stationary traffic from 90mph, with the obvious check in the rear view mirror to see the mum in the Picasso playing with something in the back seat for the child. I decided to tuck into the barrier and watch as she slid up the inside all locked up after her brown trouser realization moment.
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Germany has a couple of "no-speed-limits" highways. How are the accident rates on those compared to the ones limited to 70 MPH?
How much is the speed limit actually dropping the accident rates?
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Not sure on numbers, but they have a lot less accidents on the auto bahn than we do. Only downside is when they have an accident it's generally fatal!
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Ouch Kenny.
I only manage 145mph on my recent trip to Berlin, too much traffic.
I also got flashed twice by various cameras on the normal roads, brings the total in Europe to around 12.
Hope they don't catch up with me :evil:
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@GolfTi: They will get you as sure as night follows day. They'll throw you in a clink full of butch, frustrated, deviant murderers. But don't fret. I'll bail you for a favour or two. :grin:
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I've got French/Dutch/Belgian/German parking tickets going back 20 years.
I've been caught by the traffic cameras many times. Tickets don't get sent to the UK.
If the local police stop you then its a fine but no points on your UK licence.
I only drive fast when it is safe to do so.
Clean UK licence since I got it.
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I've got French/Dutch/Belgian/German parking tickets going back 20 years.
I've been caught by the traffic cameras many times. Tickets don't get sent to the UK.
If the local police stop you then its a fine but no points on your UK licence.
I only drive fast when it is safe to do so.
Clean UK licence since I got it.
And so the Kiss of Death has been made!